I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool.

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

He never fell, never slipped back, never flew.

A boy becomes a man when a man is needed